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Get your foam products tested for flame retardants

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The well-respected research team at Duke University has created a new program that lets you test, for the first time, products in your home for toxic flame retardants.

Posted Jun 13, 2014 by

Back to the future: looking at the “new” TSCA

By Bob Sussman, former Senior Policy Counsel to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson On April 29, Mr. Shimkus convened a hearing of the Environment and Economy Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to solicit reactions to the latest Republican rewrite of the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA). Not surprisingly, industry witnesses hailed the new draft […]

Posted May 12, 2014 by Bob Sussman

Why I’ll miss Lisa Jackson (and you should too)

By Andy Igrejas, Campaign Director As you may have heard, Lisa Jackson has announced that she is stepping down as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. No one can blame her. It’s an increasingly thankless job. But I’m going to miss her and you should too, as the storminess of her tenure has implications for […]

Posted Jan 10, 2013 by